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...studied liberal arts at Calcutta's Islamia College and law at Dacca University. He lives with his wife Fazil-itunessa, three sons and two daughters in a modest two-story house in Dacca's well-to-do Dhanmandi section. Except for a brief stint as an insurance salesman, he has devoted most of his time to politics. First he opposed British rule in India. After the subcontinent's partition in 1947, he denounced West Pakistan's dominance of East Pakistan with every bit as much vehemence. "Brothers," he would say to his Bengali followers...
Some El Monte residents moved in to stay, and they look at it as a place to put down roots. Joseph Hermes, 50, an insurance salesman, found in the late 1950s that a house that would cost $20,000 in the San Fernando Valley went for $5,000 less in El Monte. "I like the people here," he says. "I think they are good. They work hard." He has only one complaint: "They are used to being kicked around a little bit, so they don't take as much interest in the city as they should...
...twin sister, who is dying of a bone disease, and has just been divorced by her husband. The narrator's subject is the middle-aged founder of a Southern fundamentalist religion, which ordains anybody to the ministry by request (and the payment of a love offering), a former Bible salesman who did five years in jail for exhibitionism. The other characters are all refugees from every depressing Harold Pinter play you've ever seen-a virtual corps de ballet of nymphomaniacs, alcoholics, homosexuals, and a seventy-five year old Indian millionaire worried about his potency...
London traffic seems to be where it's at these days. A bang and a tinkle in front of Harrods last week brought Salesman Patrick Ling charging out of his little Zephyr, "my mind full of evil thought," to deal with the blighter who'd bumped his bumper and smashed his tail light. The girl behind the wheel of the spiffy Reliant Scimitar just sat there, but her male companion suggested that Ling send the bill to Buckingham Palace, where the insurance would take care of it. The bird was Princess Anne, her companion a detective guardian. "What...
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